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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5"') Staple to left side of form Photo number Roll 13 $. Map. Draw sketch of building location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings. Indicate north. In Area no. Form no. 165-H 1. Town Worcester Address Name 699 Southbridge Street St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Present use church Present owner Parish of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church 3.
Description: 1894 Date cornerstone Source Style Architect Gothic Revival Stephen Earle (Earle and Fisher) Exterior wail fabric granite & sandstone Outbuildings (describe)_ :none- Other features pointed arch entry surmounted by rose window, square tower with circular plan side tower, buttresses - parish house Altered -mid-20th rebuilt Date century -Moved - Date 19/267980/460390 i g,5: Assessors' Book 7, p.36 Lot 27 Lot 205,319 sgoit. over one acre Approximate frontage 2501 Approximate distance of building from street 10' 6. Recorded by B.R. Pfeiffer Organization Worc. Heritage Pres. Soc. Date January 1978 (over) M-7-77 7. Original owner (if known)_ St. Matthew's Episcopal Church church Original use_ Subsequent uses (if any) and dates 8.
Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural X The Arts Commerce Communication Community development same Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) Constructed of rock-faced granite and ornamented with Bothic and romanesque motiis, st- Matthew's church was constructea by the Norcros: Brothers and remains in original condition. Ihe buildings southbrage Street facade consists of the high gable of the nave (with rose window) beneath which is a slight porch with pointed-arch entry. North of the nave is a square-plan tower which rises in stages to a belfry, crenellated parapet and low, pyramidal rool.
At the tower's northwest corner is a circular-plan side tower which rises to a conical (stone roof) and finial. Side elevations of the church have side aisles of stone construction above which are stucco-covered clerestories. Immediately south of the church and connected to it by a passageway is a modern parish house. St. Matthew's was the first of four Episcopal missions to be founded in Worcester, through the encouragement of William Huntington, rector of All -Saints Episcopal Church from 1862 to 1883, later the rector of Grace Church in New York City. Named for the writers of the four Gospels, these missions were foundedibetween 1869 and 1908. Money began to be raised for St. Matthew's in 1869; land was purchased at the corner of Southbridge and Washburn Streets, where & wooden chapel was built in 1871.
In 1874 the mission was reorganized as & parish, one of whose prominent members was manufacturer Matthew J. Whittall (Form 177-D-1)- The parish's first rector was Henry Mackay. the parish had fifty members.In bosy 1in1882 ahLonat andchas puronasera ted a hall constructed. (cont.) 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Engineering and Building Record,vol. XXIX, 1/20/1894, p.132 (building notice) Worcester's Columbian Eribute (1893) p. 113 (photo) Nutt, C. History of Worcester, vol. II, Pp.854-857 (photo) INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity: Worcester Form No: 165-H Property Name:St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. 9.
Movement to construct the present building began in 1890 with the purchase of its lot. A rectory was built in 1090, but the church was not begun unt1l 1893. The cornerstone was set in May of 1894 at a ceremony attended by Bishop William Lawrence, who also consecrated the building on May 22, 1096. In addition to his other gifts to the parish, Matthew Whittall made a gift of $30,000 toward the construction costs of the new church. Staple to Inventory form at bottom - Property Warcester Miltiple Resama Aua (Pasteal Danentan) State MA (Warceste Working Number8. 30.79.2060 TECHNICAL CONTROL Photos 383 + 13 Maps 2,63 Enueeat emetse segure aneten tote entie cel Cuae endividual inverton sheet are Lightre 10-30-79 pustesed, a reasors peretio noinl-5 deckua DOuARC KEECTURAL HISTORIAN lsted on aclached shets.
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